13. accusation, allegation, Law. gravamen, Scot. and North Eng. threap; indictment, arraignment, Law. true bill; imputation, implication, inculpation, attribution, assignment, ascription; citation, summons, Law. plaint, Law. complaint; incrimination, recrimination, crimination, blaming.
14. expense, outlay, expenditure, disbursement; cost, fare, amount; worth, value, valuation, quotation, assessment, appraisal, appraisement.
15. fee, price, exaction, payment, rent, dues; levy, tax, toll, rate, tithe, capitation, poll tax; excise, impost, tariff, customs, surtax, tribute, duty, Hist, scot; truckage, wharfage, towage, freightage, tollage; commission, brokerage.
16. attack, assault, onset, onslaught; raid, sally, sortie, foray, invasion; siege, besiegement, offensive, aggression, incursion, investment; blitz, blitzkrieg, storming, Obs. brunt; bombardment, strafing, Mil. barrage, Mil. enfilade, Navy, broadside.
17. load, burden, bale, payload, wagonload, carload; cargo, freight, shipment, portage; weight, onus, cross, millstone, albatross; encumbrance, cumbrance, impediment, hindrance, drag, handicap; vexation, annoyance, nuisance, tribulation; tax, strain, pressure, stress; affliction, sorrow, grief, anguish.
chargeable, adj. 1. liable, responsible, accountable, answerable, amenable; indictable, arraignable, impeachable, blamable, imputable, accusable.
2. imposable, taxable, leviable, exactable, inflictable; dutiable, tithable, rateable, assessable.
charger, n. war-horse, cavalry horse, trooper, Literary. courser, Archaic, destrier; mount, steed, palfrey, riding horse.
charily, adv. 1. carefully, with care, cautiously, with caution, heedfully, mindfully, guardedly, circumspectly, Seet cannily; warily, leerily, suspiciously, distrustfully, askance.
2. sparingly, frugally, economically, thriftily; prudently, judiciously, providently.
chariness, n. cautiousness, carefulness, heedfulness, mindfulness, guardedness, watchfulness, circumspection, alertness, vigilance; wariness, leeriness, apprehension, suspiciousness, distrustfulness; prudence, care, discretion, solicitude, providence, forethought, foresight.
charitable, adj. 1. generous, liberal, unselfish, bountiful, bounteous, munificent; free, free-handed, openhanded, giving, magnanimous, big-hearted; philanthropic, humanitarian, eleemosynary, almsgiving, altruistic; ungrudging, unsparing.
2. kind, beneficent, benignant, benevolent, carita-tive, benign, open-hearted; kindly, lenient, considerate, tolerant, humane, understanding, sympathetic; mild, easy, soft, soft-hearted, tender, merciful, clement, compassionate, indulgent, permissive; accommodating, agreeable, amiable, helpful, obliging, willing, easy-to-please; good-natured, well-disposed, friendly, well-meaning, well-intentioned, good.
charity, n. 1. generosity, liberality, liberalness, bounty, munificence, munificentness; unselfishness, freehandedness, open-handedness, magnanimousness, bigheartedness; philanthropy, humanitarianism, altruism, almsgiving, giving, donating, self-sacrifice; love of mankind, Christian love, agape, Latin, caritas; kindness, beneficence, goodness, favor, service, courtesy; benignancy, benignity, benevolence, humanity, good will, open-heartedness, kindliness, kind-heartedness.